SYMPHONY SPACE

Juan

Swe

Laura

Kazumi

Erick

Guissel

Yvette

Yolette

Maria Pilar




WRITING PROMPTS
    • I remember this day. I was 10. (Or use present tense: I am 10 years old…)
    • Do you write letters to someone (and not emails?) Have you ever written letters to someone? Why? Why not?
    • You and a friend have decided to try and follow a rainbow to see if the end holds a pot of gold. But when you finally reach the end, you find something much more valuable than a pot of gold—and it changes your life. Write about it.
    • A time to become a superhero. What special skills are needed today?
    • Group write anyone? Based on “A time to…” poem



Writing help from Writing Exercises:
"Three random nouns"
Dialogue generator
Time/Location/... setting

I am so sad that my mother is not here anymore. The brooch is beautiful, but I don't really need it. I wish I had her courage.






1. Personal story: Write about “The _ that my (had/told/did/made...)”
(The courage that my mother had, the jokes that my father told, the sound that my little brother made when…) the icecream that my mother ate/made

2. Look at the photos below. Try to write a short FICTION story. The photo is your starting point...


Symphony Space Address: Corner of Broadway and 95 St.
First reading: Thur, Feb 2. Actors read the stories below (see PDFs)


Symphony Space Reading:

Poems:







The Courage that my mother had (courage =

: the ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous

  • The troops showed great courage [=bravery] in battle.
  • She has the courage to support unpopular causes.
  • It takes courage to stand up for your rights.

The poem is about a mother and her daugher/her son.

The mother is dead.

The daughter has her mother's golden brooch.

She likes it, but it's something she could spare

something she doesn't really need.=

She wants her mother's courage.

The daughter seems to be scared.

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Medium length:




Longer pieces:





#1 (Suddenly I heard…) Or other beginning
(Rom)



#2 (Suddenly I heard…) Or other beginning

(H)


#3 (Suddenly I heard…) Or other beginning
(Ac)

#4 (Suddenly I heard…) Or other beginning
(Com)


What makes a woman strong?

* a healthy mind

* happiness

* family

* life experience

* having children

* money

* mistakes

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Who do you admire? (

respect a lot)=

Politics

Entertainment

Social

Other

Scientists

. Angela Merkel (German Chancellor)

Suu Kyi (Myanmar)

Malala

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* Meryl Streep

* Jane Fonda

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.Sophie Marchant??

Melissa McCarthy

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Mother Teresa

* our mothers and grandmothers


If you were a man, what would you do? What would be different?

If you were a woman, what would you do? What would be different?

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If I were a man.... (this) would be different. I would go, I would do, I would find... Guissel would be happy, because her life would be easier


I I were a woman... I would like this I would not like this.... I would think that life is more difficult I would have a lot to do

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What would you do?

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